High-level, or holistic, scene understanding involves
reasoning about objects, regions, and the 3D relationships
between them. This requires a representation above the
level of ...
Common visual codebook generation methods used in
a Bag of Visual words model, e.g. k-means or Gaussian
Mixture Model, use the Euclidean distance to cluster features
into visual...
Graph-based semi-supervised learning has gained considerable
interests in the past several years thanks to its effectiveness
in combining labeled and unlabeled data through
labe...
This paper introduces BoostMap, a method that can significantly reduce retrieval time in image and video database systems that employ computationally expensive distance measures, ...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
This paper proposes a new framework for image segmentation based on the integration of MRFs and deformable models using graphical models. We first construct a graphical model to r...